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Remember paper? Memos to sign. Maps to fold. Letters to write. Calendars to flip. Wistful paper executives remember. They've watched email, annotatable PDFs, digital calendars and paperless billing diminish more than a third of the copy- and writing-paper business in recent years, spurring mill closures and eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs. But now paper and packaging — still a $132 billion industry but absorbing a 5 percent loss in office- and writing-paper revenue each year — is fighting back. Aided by the same USDA program that helped milk companies produce the Got Milk ads, paper and packaging manufacturers have launched a multimillion dollar ad campaign...

Amazon has come a long way from selling books out of a Seattle garage. The company had an inauspicious start in July 1995 at the dawn of the Web as an online bookseller. It narrowly escaped the dot-com bust of 2000 to reinvent online retailing. And...

Amazon promised "more deals than Black Friday" for an online shopping event Wednesday, but some Chicago shoppers came away disappointed and took to Twitter to vent.
Here's a sampling of the tweets directed at the online retailer:
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It used to be only brick and mortar stores that offered Christmas in July deals. However, today, is one of the best times to shop online. Ecommerce titans Walmart and Amazon duke it out to see who is king of the click! Amazon's Prime Day is a sale...

Ann Marie Walker is on the verge of her next great adventure with the release of her second contemporary romance novel in the steamy trilogy, Chasing Fire.
The La Grange Park resident wrote, "Release Me," with co-author Amy K. Rogers and has...

The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into online retailer Amazon over its distribution of e-books, which have become increasingly popular in recent years. The European Commission said Thursday it will investigate certain clauses in...

I write with a fountain pen. I don't watch television. I don't own an iPad, an iPod, a desktop, a laptop or a smart phone. I am, in short, the last person you'd suspect would get involved with an e-reader. But when I saw last year that Amazon had...

In 2014, I decided that for the entire year, I wouldn't read books written by white authors. My goal was to address the reading practices I developed growing up in Australia, where white authors have dominated the literary world. My high school reading...

Ever since Amazon settled its dispute with Hachette over wholesale prices and distribution, I took my eye off them, but they've been up to some stuff recently that has me thinking I need to be more vigilant.
The first bit of news is that, frustrated by...

In November, a pair of technology journalists issued the latest in what seems to be a constant stream of announcements proclaiming the start of a book publishing revolution. First, co-authors Jason Hiner and Lyndsey Gilpin said they would crowdfund...

While Mrs. Biblioracle was doing her residency at Virginia Tech to become a small animal internal medicine specialist, we lived within easy driving distance of the greatest all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch of all time.
The brunch was hosted by the...

A janitor in the Chicago offices of internet giant Google was charged with possession of stolen property after he allegedly tried to sell to a Wilmette pawn shop watches, cameras, tablets and other items stolen from the tech company's River North offices,...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is starting a book club. My question: Who brings the wine? Is there an app for that?
Zuckerberg announced the book club on — where else? — Facebook. He intends to read a book every other week for an entire year and...

The following items were taken from Glen Ellyn police reports:
A wallet and phone went missing from a restaurant on the 800 block of Roosevelt Road between 5 and 6 p.m. on Dec. 28. They later were found inside the owner's mailbox undamaged, but $150...

The following items were collected from police reports:
A 5-foot-6 man of medium build holding a black semi-automatic gun robbed Community Bank on the 1000 block of Lake Street of an undetermined amount of money between 12:18 and 12:21 p.m. Dec. 31. He...

Barring some kind of monumental screw-up, Amazon will be the dominant e-book retailer forevermore.
Amazon is certainly capable of screwing up. The Fire Phone that was launched to great fanfare before being quickly discounted to 99 cents seems like a...

As of the moment of this writing, in the last 30 days, more than 75,000 books have been added to the Amazon Kindle Store. That's 2,500 books per day, over 100 per hour.
In the time it will take me to write an initial draft of this column, more new...